women are. ready. to do. much more. on the w. . black. this is you don't really lose life or girl in a historic vatican some of the catholic church gathers the world's leading bishops to confront sexual abuse of children pope francis who has come under mounting pressure to address the string of abuse scandals says the world is expecting not just condemnation but concrete action but is it too little too late so also coming

up german guns being used in massacres abroad judges find former employees of gun maker heckler called guilty of illegally exporting weapons to mexico and a medical breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer german doctors say they've developed a blood test that can detect the killer disease more quickly and not invasive late and that should be available this year. plus anti semitism persists in the world of german football today in frankfurt a conference is looking for strategies to stop a repeat of incidents such as this one in dortmund last year when you'll not see fans created stickers of jewish direst on the front wearing their rivals football jersey.

well hawk is great to have you along everyone and president of the summit on sexual abuse is now under way in the vatican pope francis kicked off a landmark gathering with bishops from around the world to address clerical sexual abuse francis began the four day meeting by saying that the church must listen to abuse victims but some survivors say the pope's efforts don't go far enough and that he's been too slow to act while the summit comes after an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests accusing them of molesting children and raping nuns you people are rightly it's uncharted territory for the one hundred ninety heads of bishops conferences and religious orders present here. they were summoned to the vatican to publicly address the child abuse crisis within the catholic church it's a meeting marked by shame cardinal louis table of the philippines even broke into tears the wounds of the recent carry the memory of illicit

suffering. but they also carry the memory of our weakness full. but regret alone can change decades of systematic sexual abuse here and i hope francis made it clear to the priests that he won't let them off easy he says but it's a sensible part of the holy people of god looking at us and do not expect from us simple and predictable condemnations but concrete and effective measures for. survivors when the pope to quickly follow his words with deeds. zero tolerance for any priest that has sexually assaulted a child around the world written into the universal church law because it's not universal church law right now it's not there law pope francis could do it he could

do it by monday morning he's the only one that can do it. minor changes to canon law i expect that as an outcome more consequential demands such as making it every choir meant to report suspected abuse of priests to the police are unlikely to be met but some remain hopeful emphasizing that the status quo is simply not an option . there needs to be common concrete changes why wouldn't i be optimistic also do we want an organization that is going to continue to allow the rape of children and the where bishops are not held accountable. to lead you to maybe listening to the emotional testimonies from victims in the coming days will convince church leaders to make the necessary changes. so i'm now joined on the line by the to the hearing are full he is the editor in chief of the catholic news agency and he joins us from rome where the summit is underway

a good evening sir what concrete steps can we expect from this historical meeting at the vatican. good evening i think we will feel from very concrete that we were outlined today by colonel fall of. bogota colombia he gave a very punishing talk just this afternoon. he made it clear that there will be major changes in the way the church deals with the weakest even though there will be a change in canada law that will be a change in procedure and there will be an end with the. if a policy of hiding. and to defending those perpetrators who the thief thinks so you are optimistic that these the changes will be implemented

relatively soon and will lead to meaningful accountability and change. i'm quite optimistic after this first day of a conference. but i don't think we will see it by next monday because changing church well does take a little time because if you look if you change the church law you have to do it in a very. well done manner. it must be a change that that. is good for decades or maybe even for for centuries if it's not something you can do in a week but i think we will see some major changes this year. now there are already i mean it's not like they have to come up with a whole new set of proposals because there are already concrete proposals on the table as we speak on how to tackle a sexual abuse released last year as you know better than anyone by the u.s.

bishops but the vatican basically told them well just to hold off for a moment why. because they think here in the vatican that it's not something that can be done by the u.s. bishops alone because the catholic church as you know is a universal church so it's no use of. changing the laws just for the americans you have to change. the universe of church have to change them for africa you have to change. for cultures where people have not yet this kind of awareness that the public in the u.s. have filled the scandals and the year two thousand to when the boston scandal first erupted so it is better to have a global change for the global church than to have one change in one local church

like the u.s. . is hearing i feel editor in chief of the catholic news agency says thank you for joining us from rome. i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. a fire in the bangladeshi capital dhaka has claimed more than seventy lives dozens more have been injured while flames spread quickly through a crowded neighborhood in the oldest part of the city it's a firefighters more than ten hours to control the blaze. forensic scientists in syria say they found the largest mass grave yet containing the bodies of people killed by islamic state militants were located just outside the former i asked stronghold of the grave is estimated to hold around three and a half thousand bodies well this is the ninth mass grave to be found. a group of lawyers in turkey has gathered outside istanbul's main courthouse to protest

against the jailing of journalists well earlier this week in the peals court upheld jail sentences for fourteen former staff members of the opposition newspaper column what do you get while some have called the ruling the end of the free press in turkey. a teenage swedish activist to agree to turn burger is in brussels where she's touring students who are skipping school to protest climate change the sixteen year old earlier address to the e.u. conference time burgo was inspires inspired rather students around the world to stage school walkouts to march against global warming the use students are urging politicians to double their carbon reduction targets. a german gun maker has been fined three point seven million euros for illegally exporting thousands of assault rifles to crisis regions in mexico all to former employees of the firm heckler and koch have been given suspended jail terms germany is among the

world's top arms exporters and the case has highlighted the impact of german arms manufacturing in conflict regions. the presiding judge said the case was not a tribe you know on german weapons makers but it was the company heckler and koch that was held primarily responsible for the illegal sales of the arms the firm now has to pay a hefty five with these multireligious to use and there was in this judgment illustrates the excesses of weapons exporting in this country that's clear that formal declarations about where arms are going don't work and can be swabs are falsified it will without any checks by the authorities as the game comes we will do it and it was proven. the it while the region of mexico was blacklisted but between two thousand and six and two thousand and nine heckler and koch exploded four point one million euros worth of assault rifles there in two thousand and fourteen six people were killed and forty three students disappeared without

a trace mexican police blame local criminals and believe the weapons. that got caught showed leniency to five defendants accused of being involved in the illegal arms sales to were given suspended sentences while three were acquitted. activists who want germany to scale back the highly profitable arms manufacturing sector say the case shows that the country is too cavalier about selling guns throughout the world germany approves some six point two billion arm sales in the year twenty seventeen. british billionaire richard branson is organizing a concert in colombia in an effort to raise funds and awareness for crisis stricken venezuela some two hundred fifty thousand people are expected to attend the concert in the small colombian border town of kuta president nicolas maduro is we're portably planning a rival concert on the other side of the border in venezuela on news comes as the

situation on the border intensifies shortages of essential foods and medicines have already driven millions to flee venezuela. and a short while ago i spoke to deal with his latin america correspondent javier i get us he's in town in the town of kuta right now and i asked him to tell us what's happening around him. pilot i will we are located at the cmon believe it a bridge is one of the bridges connecting colombia and venezuela back there what you can see is venezuela colombia at the border is just a few steps in the front and what you're seeing here is the face of the crisis in venezuela people going back and forth crossing the border into colombia to get food and medicine that they can either not afford or simply not find in their home country authorities here have reported that in the last few days there has been an increased influx of migrants that are trying to get these products they are stockpiling afraid of what could happen during the weekend and dad has let the

authorities to declare yellow alert here in the city and of course also to try and reinforce the security with at least one thousand five hundred or more personnel that is going to try and keep people safe right and as all of this is unfolding right behind you there is this rival these rival cons. they're going to take place tomorrow what can you tell us about that. well the first concert as you already mentioned was called by richard branson it is expected to have an attendance of about two hundred fifty thousand people that are going to get here. including some very known guests in the latin american music scene like or when we get out we will also see some presidents of the latin american region like the president of chile who is going to attend here of course a big challenge for this country and for this city particularly now on the other side is trying to make his concert as symbolic as possible extending it twice as long it's going to take place on friday and saturday and he will also deliver

humanitarian aid to colombia a symbolic gesture to show what he calls is a hypocrisy by the colombian government giving aids to in as well an organizing at the spite the fact that the country has problems of its own i have here in conclusion what about one. going to turn up where you are. he has been traveling for about four hours he is planning to arrive this evening to the van as well inside where the venezuelan concert is going to take place let's not forget that he cannot leave his country despite the fact that he has proclaimed himself president of venezuela authorities are still not necessarily obeying him and that is the risk here we do not know how events are going to unfold because there is uncertainty about what orders the military will have both in venezuela and colombia. get us reporting thank you. back here in germany the issue of abortion is currently the subject of a fierce debate abortion is

a criminal offense here with terminations only allowed in certain very restricted circumstances well the current controversy centers on whether german doctor should be allowed to advertise that they carry out the procedure. gabriela haldar is one of thousands of doctors in germany caught in the center of the country's ongoing debate over abortion. the fact that abortion is criminalized. that it's illegal in germany the woman doesn't have that isn't happy abortion in germany is in fact a crime but there are exceptions in cases of rape on medical grounds and on certain conditions prosecution is avoided if the abortion is carried out within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy if the woman attends mandatory counseling and then waits another three days before the abortion but at the center of the current debate is tiny article two hundred one thousand nine hundred eighty of germany's criminal code it dates back to the nazi era and makes it

a crime for doctors to publicly advertise abortions after being overlooked for decades it's now sparked political debate. but the principle must be that we do not advertise abortions it's forbidden and unborn life must be protected but i cannot allow abortion advertising and we want to prevent it even in a limited number of attempts. there is one of the hundreds of doctors who have been accused of violating the article in her case it was due to a flyer on the clinic website stating that she carries out of fortune's the flyer was removed and the case was then dropped but many doctors still feel persecuted since two thousand and three the number of them who carry out abortions has fallen by forty percent. these activists these activists who stop women on the sidewalk from going to the counseling centers or clinic they're simply frightening they're traumatizing for women. and then there's the fact that this

criminal punishment weighs down on the issue of abortion. and you compromised by the german government would allow doctors to state that they offer abortions but more advertising remains forbidden prior to forming a new coalition with angela merkel's conservatives germany social democrats wanted to abolish the abortion advertising ban isn't. that also from the social democratic side with two main objectives to safeguard women's right to information and to guarantee legal security for doctors and for dr holder the legal compromise doesn't go far enough she wants to see article two hundred nineteen a abolished. i support protection of life but not when it's against women instead it should be with women offer something to women offer assurance that their careers won't be damaged if they have children make contraception free for all ages but we just

don't have. this how many such alternatives could take years to really happen in germany but for now the long time to boot of abortion has got both german politics and society talking. now to a medical development is generating a lot of attention doctors in germany say they've come up with a new blood test that can detect whether someone has breast cancer researchers at the university of heidelberg say the test is as reliable as a mammogram but costs less and comes without exposure to radiation while breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer it kills more than six hundred thousand people around the world each year and researchers involved in the project say it should be available for general use this year already. this one finding i think this is a huge milestone in a real breakthrough because it is a completely new technique for us to use what we already have monograms ultrasound

and m.r.i. but this gives us a different type of diagnostic tool it's a real breakthrough and let's get the latest on this i want to turn to is of a car a body from a science department good to see is all can you break it down for us because my understanding is that there is already a blood test out there that is being used to detect whether a person carries a gene that could lead to breast cancer how is this one different. well look there are other tests out there but what explain first of all why this compares to mammograms is very important i think amanda graham is it is still considered to be among the best way to detect breast cancer in a woman and yet it's a very heavy procedure for a woman to undergo a blood test is less invasive and there are other tests on there i'll get to then a second amount of ground you've got to remember is an x. ray it's radiation and radiation can lead to cancer in some cases you probably wouldn't have that with a blood test mammograms also come up with false positive false negative results

which can lead to anxiety or a false sense of curiosity and this blood test should do better in that area it is saide the only problem is we don't really know the details because the study so far relatively small is none of the people have been tested on five hundred of which were known cancer patients that could have jumped the stats slightly so we really need a bigger study on this we need to know more about what specific kinds of cancer this breast cancer this test can detect specially as we're hearing that the researchers say this will be ready for the market there are six months also so if we don't nail this down right now we could be heading into a large scale public clinical trial on unwitting patients so we really need to know more now on this and other blood test as well like cancer see for instance so it's basically turly to say whether this will actually end up replacing a mammogram people should still have a mammogram. well at the moment the research is one of the university clinical saying look it's not going to replace we don't want to replace the monogram we

don't replace other detection methods either it's a kind of a strange sort of pingpong they've got going here don't compare us what we're comparing it with we may be better than or that's the point is it could end up being just another one of the many tests that you can take to test for and track the progression of a cancer so the mammogram is still out there. all right bonnie from id w. science department thank you. and that still how much should a kilo of bananas cost well it depends on who you ask the cheaper the better for consumers and the supermarkets that supply it but the farmers and the exporters representing them say they need a livable wages on our journeys about the minister has suggested that the government should get involved in setting prices. last fall german supermarket chain ali said it plans to cut the price it was willing to pay for a crate of bananas supplied from ecuador from eight to seven euros but farmers

there resisted the move they're already been struggling financially plus ecuador has a statutory minimum sell price for exported bananas. the ecuadorians have now stopped supplying ali. meanwhile berlin has called on german companies to ensure fair pricing and production conditions called that was the signal obvious that customers need to get the message across that's a good if not we'll have to introduce binding rules on social standards no child labor decent living wages for the plantation workers basic ecological standards. could all be sick on standards a lot of supermarkets are showing the way forward it will be such as legal and eat a gun. and they want to see others joining them or and the un but on those and see all of these and big about. complying with those social standards comes at a price however and it's that price that the farmers in ecuador are demanding. the

country is the world's largest exporter of bananas its main markets are the e.u. especially germany and russia. german football is taking a hard look at itself today to address anti-semitism in and outside the stadiums across the country all incidents provoked by football fans have reportedly been on the increase a conference today in frankfurt called you'll never walk alone is looking for solutions and i'm now joined here with me on the set with by rather chris hansen from sports cursed so good to see you what is going on in germany's football stadiums and with some of the football fans i'm glad to be here in terms of this issue i'll just list look back at a few incidents this particular season brucia dortmund faced by munich and at the game to know who gains one was convicted for manslaughter and was in jail for five

years another one was banned from the stadium for a handful of years they were spotted at the game and that sparked a bit of concern from upper management within doormen because dortmund does have a history with their fancy and having far right views dating back to the one nine hundred ninety s. in two thousand you know that says that it's current right now this particular season even dating back a bit further last october in a dortmund match dortmund faced there were pictures of anne frank being shown in a shelter jersey in these pictures were not only spread all over social media but also stickers were placed up in neighboring cities of dortmund rival shall to guess and his shin dusseldorf in this particular area in germany and that was taken from the italian situation in and france its ways were last year in roma a similar situation so that was kind of a copycat scenario last may even affect the lower divisions here in germany last may a locomotive actually locomotive life see you know this is a very alarming to coaches from the u.

club or fired because they were in a photo with the players doing the nazi salute you know so you have it affect you not only the top flight but also the lower divisions as well and you know it's a situation that definitely needs a remedy quickly all right so that is the. backstory what is the german football federation trying to do to combat the scourge of anti-semitism well just this past january on the twenty seven specifically it marked the seventy fourth anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz birkenau concentration camps and the but as they get as well as lower divisions you know all commemorate the day the holocaust memorial day and they all take to the stands as you can see here this is an image from the fryeburg hoffenheim match. which says never again so there is any so just to make it clear there is this element of far right who has hooliganism within the groups but the ultras are trying to combat the issue as well and along with this memorial day clubs as well you know work together with the fan scene to try to put p.r.

campaigns together dormant in particular had one video that they released in a p.r. effort to combat the issue just say basically that we should be doing this again but i'm just wondering is that enough for preventing you know future anti semitic events happening and that was the whole point of the conference you know today in frankfurt taking place you know and it's from my sources are telling me that basically the fan scenes from people affiliated with clubs they do feel that more should be done because what often happens is that police and authorities contain but don't necessarily police and eradicate the issue all i can say is education is needed in some cases a reeducation from a personal standpoint is hard for me to really understand that way of thinking but it does exist and some clubs are taking the initiative they send players you know to a concentration camps and they take courses and things like this but currently right now in germany with the influx of certain ideas and you know that exist as well as

the far right political groups being under the national spotlight it's a concern and i don't see this being the last conference dealing with this issue i do see more in the near future but they've got to start somewhere chris harrington thank you so very much encouraged it. and say you're watching do you know where your news coming up next in the media is our progress eerily owns a president has declared a national emergency after the country's reprices sparked a public outcry dillinger's over the speaker sarah was first lady was made to fight against rape her cause. that's coming from right up to the top.

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